Installing Adobe Acrobat Pro On Terminal Server

16-09-2021

Installing Adobe Acrobat Pro On Terminal Server

We are planning on setting up a terminal server for a client and they want to install Adobe Acrobat Pro for each user (total 15 users) We want to know if anyone is currently doing this and which license we need to purchase? Installing Acrobat products¶ You must install applications by using Add or Remove Programs on the WTS server. To install Acrobat products: Choose Start Settings Control Panel Add or Remove Programs. Do one of the following. Hi Folks, do you get performance issues if using Adobe Acrobat Reader on a Terminal Server / VDI? Here are some tweaks to improve it. 🙂 First of all you should be aware that the Adobe Acrobat Reader works with User based settings, this is very important to know because you need to make sure that all configurations “must” be applied to the User hive in the Windows Registry.

Adobe Acrobat Terminal Server
Installing Adobe Acrobat Pro On Terminal Server Configuration

I had an outstanding job to update Adobe Reader 9 on a Windows 2003 Terminal Server.

Here are the steps I took.

1. Apply for a free Adobe Reader distribution license
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/distribution.html?readstep

2. Download the setup file from Adobe
http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
or from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/

3. Download Adobe Customization Wizard
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4950

4. Download the Acrobat Enterprise Administration Guide this will be a reference and explain all the options in detail
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83709/attachments/Acrobat_Enterprise_Administration.pdf

5. Extract the redistribution package
Open a command prompt and type or paste the below (I saved the download to C:Adobe)
The command below will extract all the files to C:AdobeExtract
C:Adobe>AdbeRdr1014_en_US.exe -sfx_ne -sfx_o”C:AdobeExtract”

6. Make a AIP (Administrative Installation Point) what is an AIP? uncompressed setup files
msiexec /a AcroRead.msi

7. Patch the AIP with the latest update that came with the download package (in the Extract folder).
msiexec /a C:AdobeAIPAcroRead.msi /p C:AdobeExtractAdbeRdrUpd1014.msp

8. Install Adobe Customization Wizard
This will allow you to make a custom install MST file to control what settings your users have in Adobe Reader.

Note; setup.ini was not there when I made the AIP. You may need to modifying the extract folder msi then copy it.

9. Install with MST

Note; options /i = install /qb = Displays a basic user interface TRANSFORMS= custom settings MST file

E:AdobeExtract>msiexec /i AcroRead.msi TRANSFORMS=AcroRead.mst /qb

Note; Add double quotes if you have problems.

E:AdobeExtract>msiexec /i AcroRead.msi TRANSFORMS=”AcroRead.mst” /qb

Hope it helps someone, let me know if you have any comments or fixes.

Have you tried opening a PDF document when you are using a terminal server, but when it opens in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC it doesn’t seem to display, or it prompts you with “There was an error opening this document. Access denied”?

We have a simple tip that should restore the program and allow you to open those documents again.

Step 1 – Acrobat Reader Preferences

Open the Adobe Acrotbat Reader DC program (you may find this on your desktop, or in your start items).

Please then press Edit and select Preferences.

Step 2 – Navigate to Security (Enhanced)

When you have opened preferences, you will see a settings pane on the left side with a list of options to choose from.

Please select Security (Enhanced). This will prompt you with a page, at the top of which you will see three options. We specifically want to focus on “Enable Protected Mode at Startup”

Step 3 – Untick Enable protectd mode at startup

All you need to do is un-tick the box highlighted below.

If you are prompted with a warning window, please press yes..

Now it should look like this:

Adobe Acrobat Terminal Server

Step 4 – Close down adobe Acrobat and open A PDF File

Now that his has been un-ticked, please close the dialogue box, and also close down all instances of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. You should now be able to open PDF files with no problems.

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